Due Process Hearing
Student JM (#8557/07-08 AS)
Date of Birth: xx/xx/xx
Date of Hearing: April 8, May 12 & 16, June 11 & 24, 2008
Closed Hearing
Parties to the Hearing
Parent
Ms.
School District
Southeastern Greene
Representative
Kelly A. Stepp, Esq.
Representative
Barbara A. Rizzo, Esq.
Transcript Completed
July 11, 2008
Date of Decision
July 16, 2008
Hearing Officer
David Y. K. Lee
II. BACKGROUND
Student is a teenage student who resides in the Southeastern Greene School District (hereafter District). Student began having significant adjustment difficulties, in the form of anxiety and depression, following the untimely death of Student’s [family member] when Student was in the sixth grade as a regular education student in the District. Student was provided with Homebound Instruction (hereafter Homebound) for seventh grade and the second half of eighth grade. Student completed ninth grade at the [redacted] School (hereafter School). Homebound was again instituted from November, 2006 to the end of Student’s tenth grade year at School. For the current 2007-2008 school year, Student is enrolled in the [redacted] Charter School (hereafter Charter School). The parent opined that the District failed in its Child Find obligations and requested a due process hearing.
IV. ISSUES
1. Did the District fail in its Child Find duties? (N.T. 47.)
2. Is Student entitled to compensatory education? (N.T. 47.)
JM-Southeastern-Greene-ODRNo-8557-07-08-AS